Second FBO Coming To Wichita Airport

Kansas aviation services provider Clemens Aviation has received the green light to establish a new FBO at Wichita Colonel James Jabara Airport (AAO). The company, which provides the aircraft handling at nearby privately owned Lloyd Stearman Field and operates aircraft management/charter and maintenance businesses there, plans to break ground early next year on a $9 million, full-service complex at Jabara.

Its Jabara facility will include a 60,000-sq-ft hangar capable of sheltering the latest big business jets and an adjoining 8,000-sq-ft terminal. When completed by the end of next year's third quarter, it will give the airport its second FBO.

According to company owner Dwayne Clemens, the expansion into AAO will include Clemens’s Part 135 aircraft charter division, as well as its Part 145 heavy maintenance. The company also operates its own fuel division, which allows it to buy directly from the refineries as an independent unbranded dealer, which Clemens told AIN should allow it to pass fuel price savings along to customers.